Adam Lanza, 20, shot his teacher mother before driving to her elementary school and shooting 26 people including 20 children. (Courtesy of ABC)

Sandy Hook Elementary School following a shooting inside the school in Newtown, Connecticut, USA 14 December 2012.Multiple deaths were reported in a shooting at a US elementary school in Connecticut. Reports state that said 27 people were dead, including 14 children. Media sources reported 12 deaths at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown. (Landov)

Principal Dawn Hochsprung

Young children wait outside Sandy Hook Elementary School after a shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, December 14, 2012. A shooter opened fire at the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday, killing several people including children, the Hartford Courant newspaper reported. (Landov)

Scenes from Sandy Hook, Newtown, Connecticut this morning as a NJ man in his 20’s allegedly opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 27 people, 18 children and counting, before taking his own life. (SplashNews)

Sandy Hook Elementary School following a shooting inside the school in Newtown, Connecticut, USA 14 December 2012.Multiple deaths were reported in a shooting at a US elementary school in Connecticut. Reports state that said 27 people were dead, including 14 children. Media sources reported 12 deaths at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown. (Landov)

Scenes from Sandy Hook, Newtown, Connecticut this morning as a NJ man in his 20’s allegedly opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 27 people, 18 children and counting, before taking his own life. (SplashNews)

Sandy Hook Elementary School following a shooting inside the school in Newtown, Connecticut, USA 14 December 2012.Multiple deaths were reported in a shooting at a US elementary school in Connecticut. Reports state that said 27 people were dead, including 14 children. Media sources reported 12 deaths at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown. (Landov)

Scenes from Sandy Hook, Newtown, Connecticut this morning as a NJ man in his 20’s allegedly opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 27 people, 18 children and counting, before taking his own life. (SplashNews)

NEWTOWN, CT – DECEMBER 14: Connecticut State Police walk near the scene of an elementary school shooting on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. According to reports, there are more than 20 dead, most children, after a gunman opened fire in at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. The shooter was also killed. (Photo by Douglas Healey/Getty Images)

Sandy Hook Elementary School following a shooting inside the school in Newtown, Connecticut, USA 14 December 2012.Multiple deaths were reported in a shooting at a US elementary school in Connecticut. Reports state that said 27 people were dead, including 14 children. Media sources reported 12 deaths at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown. (Landov)

NEWTOWN, CT – DECEMBER 14: Connecticut State Police walk near the scene of an elementary school shooting on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. According to reports, there are more than 20 dead, most children, after a gunman opened fire in at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. The shooter was also killed. (Photo by Douglas Healey/Getty Images)

Sandy Hook Elementary School following a shooting inside the school in Newtown, Connecticut, USA 14 December 2012.Multiple deaths were reported in a shooting at a US elementary school in Connecticut. Reports state that said 27 people were dead, including 14 children. Media sources reported 12 deaths at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown. (Landov)

Sandy Hook Elementary School following a shooting inside the school in Newtown, Connecticut, USA 14 December 2012.Multiple deaths were reported in a shooting at a US elementary school in Connecticut. Reports state that said 27 people were dead, including 14 children. Media sources reported 12 deaths at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown. (Landov)

A woman holds a child as people line up to enter the Newtown Methodist Church near the the scene of an elementary school shooting on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. According to reports, there are about 27 dead, 18 children, after a gunman opened fire in at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. The shooter was also killed. (Getty)

Relatives react outside Sandy Hook Elementary School following a shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, December 14, 2012. At least 27 people, including 18 children, were killed on Friday when at least one shooter opened fire at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, CBS News reported, citing unnamed officials. (Landov)

Relatives react outside Sandy Hook Elementary School following a shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, December 14, 2012. At least 27 people, including 18 children, were killed on Friday when at least one shooter opened fire at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, CBS News reported, citing unnamed officials. (Landov)

Parents pick-up children outside Sandy Hook Elementary School after a shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, December 14, 2012. At least 27 people, including children, were killed on Friday when at least one shooter opened fire at the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, CBS News reported, citing unnamed officials. (Landov)

A young boy is comforted outside Sandy Hook Elementary School after a shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, December 14, 2012. A shooter opened fire at the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday, killing several people including children, the Hartford Courant newspaper reported. (Landov)

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Can someone explain to me why so many US citizens carry weapons ? Why is it allowed to carry or own weapons ? Here in Europe, considered by some US top politicians as being an “old continent”, we are still able to live together without having a pistol in our back pocket. Why is this not achievable in the US ?

No one knows how Jesus is crying over the lost of innocent lives that was lost on that day. But to judge is to be judged always remember this ur sins will find you out,none of yall are perfect and all have sinned. It was there time and no one could have stopped it. This world yall live on has been doomed sense jesus died on the cross and it isnt getting any better. Time for yall to wake up.

Hi I just would like to add, when God made you and I, he made us for doing his will, his prepuce, “God didn’t make anything that didn’t have a prepuce”. (By Robby Duken) Now we all know that the enemy tries to mess with Gods plan for us, so I believe that this was the work of Satan though Adam Lanza.

Race doesn’t play a part of this situation. I’m a African American woman and know that everyone has fallen shirt of God’s Glory!! Pray for the families of the children, teachers andtbe principal that was lost. People wake up!!! Stop using race as a compare and contrast. We are better then this! We need to learn to come together in a time of need. God Bless Those Families..

I am truly sorry for James and your daughter – but shouldn’t you be with her instead of reading about the mistakes of other mothers? Your daughter needs you just as much as this crazed young guy needed his!

he he was dateing god forgive me for this that f**king loser need to rot in hell for killing the sandy hook students i looked online to see if baby kale went thear and it said she did but if she did not go thear tell me

I cant imagine all the pain the families are going through right now! I cant belive that some of you are acting the way you are… This has made a huge impact on the U.S.
I suggest you all better stop runnin ur mouths and start prayin.

I feel horrible for those scared parents, children, and teachers!!:(:( why would someone do such a thing!! After hearing what happened, I started having tears rolling down my cheeks!!:(:( I bet that that principle was everyone’s most friendly, awesome, beautiful, lovable, and their most favorite person in the world!!!:(:( I’m sooooo sorry for the loss of those people and children!!:(:(:(:(

No one in this world is perfect,doesn’t matter what race you are! We all have done something wrong. What this young man did was UNACCEPTABLE! And in a town of roughly 30000 people is bizarre it could happen anywhere! Thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected by this tragedy. To those who survived you all are VERY VERY VERY BRAVE! And thank you to the ones whom you brave ones saved!

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Sabra

Posted at 5:08 PM on December 15, 2012

Amber your remark is why our world is in trouble. You must be a black.

Its not a black its black (african american) and any race could of did that its not yourrace its your mind i cant believe that after all that has happened people are worry about race whhooo carrees! About race

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ConcernedSmalltownPerson

Posted at 5:46 PM on December 15, 2012

Crimes are not race related because people of all certain races do many terrible things. Because whites, blacks, hispanic, korean, chinese, elsalvadoranians, mexicans, ect….. have all robbed banks and or killed someone family or not it happens in all races.

Your a tool, In Chicago 28 people were shot in 1 weekend. Google it. Happened this past summer. Chicago is Obama and Rahm Emanuals stomping grounds, in case your a total idiot and didn’t know that either.

Because the crazy man shoulda been locked up. Without access to any weapons. Damn, we cannot get any easy answers to that question,sadly enough, Kitty. We can only hope and pray for the family’s and friends of each of the victims. :(
I am a firm believer in locking mentally ill people in insane asylums and keeping them there. Safety for us sane and reasonable people. He had exhibited signs of mental illness for years and was allowed to have his freedome. Now, close to 30 lives are gone. This is what happenes when crazy people are allowed to roam freely. We sane people have to live with the fear that we may be next.
I wonder if people ever remember Columbine ? I do. I am now afraid to send my kids to school. And we,too, live in a small town. :(

Wow I understand why you are afraid, its a scary world where you dont feel safe doing common things going to school movies etc. But to say all mentally ill people should be locked up you’ve obviously never had a loved one who is mentally ill. Stigma and ignorance will not solve the problem just lock them up and throw away the key. USA has the highest gun crime shootings in any country not because of mentall illness because of guns.

I am saddened as well about this God bless all the families affected by this!!!!

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bud rumpett

Posted at 3:13 PM on December 16, 2012

Have no fear mom. Your school district probably forces kids onto meds. The same kind that Klebold and Harris and Matthew Murray were on. Who determines a standard of sane and reasonable. Fearful moms might be dragged off to asylums. A lot of abused kids wound up in those facilities, all doped up on Thorazine, Electo-convulsive shock treatments applied, and veterans were even dosed with odd things like Plutonium, alcoholics with LSD or other experimental substances. . So, Mom, just how long is it that you have been experiencing the fearfulness? Hmmmnnn?

So you want to lock up people who are mentally traumatised – events like these can cause mental illness. …and the victims deserve treatment and not an “insane asylum”. Ever thought of that? No, of course not!